Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols
SWORD: what Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~52 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~143 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
7 creators- Home-objective holders that make command points 5 of 7
- Useful anti-vehicle melee attacks 2 of 7
- Few attacks for the cost 1 of 7
- No longer the top pick it was 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols65 pts | A | Top 14% | Bottom 12% | 55of 65 |
| Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers75 pts | A | Top 48% | Bottom 19% | 47of 65 |
| Neophyte Hybrids135 pts | S | Top 30% | Bottom 44% | 61of 65 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 118 |
| SHIELD | 220 | 272 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 111 |
| SHIELD | 220 | 272 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols, 5 models, 65 pts, with 1 Autopistol, 1 Cult claws and knife, 3 Heavy mining tool, 1 Leader's Bio-weapons, in Host of Ascension. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
65 pts → kills ~52 pts → 80 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~143 pts → 220 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' newest Genestealer Cults tier lists: Nexos Floof (dataslate review, Las Vegas Open recap, Final Day tier list) (12 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 5 full GSC lists and 8 summaries; September balance review) (30 Oct), 40k Rey (unit tier list) (11 Sep), 40k Vtuber: Christian Von Carmian (tier list stream, A to D) (27 Sep), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (London Open 4-1 with his own list; state of GSC) (28 Jul), Hero of Mathematical Wargaming (Brood Brothers Auxilia with Xenocult Masses, own list) (17 Jul), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, text largely before the dataslate) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
65 public Genestealer Cults tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.